BY SAMIE WAIKORI
Makira Ulawa Province over the past years, have witnessed a number of major developments unfold.
Premier of Makira Ulawa province, Stanley Siapu highlighted this at the province’s recent 42nd Second Appointed Day celebration at Kirakira.
In his address, the national government, development partners, resource owners and other stakeholders for their cooperation to achieve these milestone developments for the province.
These developments are not the only projects in the province as other projects are also in the pipeline.
As outlined by the premier, the development projects are as follows;
- The current wharf development funded by the Asian development bank will be completed in the upcoming months.
- The jetty and the storage facility for the Police fast craft project funded by the Australian defence has been completed and now awaiting the hand over.
- The Lavado cocoa factory is almost complete and the technical team to support the projects are here, awaiting the processing machines to be bought and installed.
- The final stages to our market project will be discussed this coming week and hopefully the temporary market site will begin after this celebration.
- The FIFA goal project to build our stadium just awaits the formal appointment of a project officer to oversee the project. Also, congratulation the men’s provincial football team for winning the Solomon Cup.
- A good number of ministries have now entered into formal land negotiations to establish their ministerial services and mandatory activities within the province (especially Ministry of Culture & Tourism for a Provincial Cultural Centre, Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs, Provincial Youth Centre, SINU for a Campus as part of its expansion program to provinces) etc.
- Since the discovery of the world’s largest coral in the province, plans to address tourisms is well under way in a project submitted under the name and modality of HANUA Eco Tourism project Makira Ulawa province.
- The support that has gone into the provincial development program under PCDF is now back into full swing after MUPG passed the assessments for 2023/2024. On this note we have again passed the assessment 2024/2025 at a very high percentage, meaning that we will continue to support our provincial development plans next year.
He said these achievements will have an immense impact on the province and he assures that his government will continue to work closely with the national government and development partners to bring change to Makira Ulawa province.
Siapu also highlighted that in terms of national budget, there are national projects proposed by national government to address infrastructures and social sector reforms in the country.
“I wish to highlight that we are looking forward to these projects under the national development budget to be implemented in the province,” he said.
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